Re: [Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/27/2012 04:05 AM, Jérôme Blion wrote: > For huge databases, a dump is really too slow to restore. mylvmbackup > can take a consistent snapshot of the database. > The backup is a bit longer, the backup file is bigger, restore is much > faster ! Snapshot backups are definitely the way to go

Re: [Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:28:43 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Possibly *slightly* off-topic: > > Those using MySQL for their catalog DB (well, actually, any of you > using > MySQL, but that includes Bacula catalogs) may find this interesting: > > http://www.mydumper.org/ > > It is a mysqldump repla

[Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
Possibly *slightly* off-topic: Those using MySQL for their catalog DB (well, actually, any of you using MySQL, but that includes Bacula catalogs) may find this interesting: http://www.mydumper.org/ It is a mysqldump replacement created by a couple of former MySQL AB support engineers. It is mul